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Chaam - Beiroet
Iedere reis begint met een (vaak lange) reisdag : M'n broer brengt ons om 8 uur naar NS-station Breda, vervolgens met de Fyra naar Schiphol en 3 uur wachten. Onze vlucht vertrekt vervolgens bijna 1 uur te laat, maar daardoor is de wachttijd in Amman voor de aansluitende vlucht naar Beiroet weer wat korter. Zonder verdere tegenslagen landden we …
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Taxi drivers: Singing ones Female ones (there are 12 in Beirut) They love hitler They have red license plates - diplomats have yellow Ones who fool you into thinking they have two arms by slinging a jacket over their shoulders, 'Sophie?' I ask using our secret language, 'hat er zwei arme?' He did not, and would let go of the steering wheel every time he changed gear (he had lost the correct arm to still do gears effectively)'hoffentlich er hat zwei fusse' replied ...
Smilie Syria, seriously
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The Town of Latakia is actually a little crazy in terms of traffic and they drive like lunatics!! But there were school kids and fruit sellers and all kinds of people just going about their business as normal.
The next border again took a little while on the Syrian side but no issues and then we were in Lebanon. The border was quite filthy there was rubbish everywhere and lots of people rushing about. This time all ...
Lebanon
... roadway wound back and forth and in and out, cutting across curved hillsides well above the valley floor. Neil loved driving. I was happy to let him take command too. Then his love of videotaping the drive coincided with the act of actually driving. He held the camera up and simultaneously tried to navigate the winding roads and watch the viewfinder. I sincerely feared for my life. I normally don't fear these things. ...
Lebanon - Yalla habibi!
... and wants to get rid of him, just mention marriage. Oh no! Was she trying to get rid of me? I didn't think of it that way. Around the same time that I was trying to avoid my language bodyguard who wanted to meet me every single day, I also made contact with Barbara Massaad who is an acclaimed author and photographer of Lebanese cuisine and she took me under her wing and introduced me to her wonderful family, her husband Serge and their three children, as well as many ...
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